By staging Schlachten! in Germany - an adaptation of Shakespeare's War of the Roses- Luk Perceval was looking for the workings of power and dominion and their dubious legitimations. Four hundred years after Shakespeare the audience gets a similar sort of contemporary and political theatrical production with language as the thread. This was the beginning of the production's international triumphal march…

SCHLACHTEN! was selected for the Theatretreffen- festival in Berlin 2000. On the Theatretreffen Luk Perceval and Tom Lanoye receive the Innovationspreis. SCHLACHTEN! is voted by 39 German theatre reviewers the BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR 2000, a prize rewarded annually by Theatre Heute. Thomas Thieme was elected as "Schauspieler des Jahres 2000" for his part as Dirty Rich Modderfokker.

"In Austria the opening performances were turbulent; we were praised as well as radically rejected. Haider made it clear that in his view Schlachten! should be removed from the Salzburger Festspiele's play bill. The prohibition for youngsters to go and see Schlachten! was spurred on by 200 teachers…."